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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Alone
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Anything
Hanging
Feel
Center
Feels
Musical
Way
Fashion
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Glasgow
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Media
Fashions
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